Longtime SteynOnline regulars will be familiar with the demographic thesis Mark outlined in his 2006 international bestseller America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. Almost the entire developed world is mired in deathbed demography from which no functioning society has ever recovered. Meanwhile, there is a demographic tsunami underway from the non-functioning parts of the world, manifest in the ceaseless flotilla of boats crossing the Mediterranean every single day (and nothing to do with civil war in Syria).

Mark’s book was a big success a decade ago and remains in print. But it is a melancholy fact that most people in the western world remain entirely unaware of this remorseless arithmetic or its likely consequences. So this brand new SteynPost is a kind of primer on recent demographic developments, and where they lead.

If Government keeps raising taxes, then there’s nothing left to use to raise children. Immigrant children get welfare, native white people get the bill. This has to change if you want the demographics to change. Step 1: NO WELFARE. That saves all kinds of $$. The able-bodied should work, and the truly disabled can live off charity. This isn’t rocket science.